Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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164 incidents closest to “Flock Falcon LPR” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system flagged Alek Schott's vehicle as suspicious, leading to a traffic stop, interrogation, and search.
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Fourth-grade students in Jiaxing, China, demonstrated that Hive Box's facial-recognition smart lockers could be opened with a printed photo. The company, which operates a large network of delivery lockers, acknowledged the flaw and suspended the beta feature. The incident raised concerns about the security of facial recognition technology.
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The Flock cameras captured and stored license plate data of vehicles, affecting residents' privacy.
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Delhi Police used an Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) to screen crowds at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally on December 22, 2019. The system, originally installed to find missing children, was used to identify possible disruptions. Privacy advocates called the move illegal and unconstitutional, saying it amounts to mass surveillance. Police defended the use, citing credible intelligence about possible disruptions.
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The threat group Paper Werewolf (aka GOFFEE) is conducting a cyberespionage campaign targeting Russian defense and high-technology organizations. The campaign uses AI-generated decoy documents, such as invitations and official letters, to trick recipients into opening malicious Excel XLL add-ins that deliver a backdoor called EchoGather. The backdoor collects system information and communicates with a command-and-control server. The campaign is ongoing and was first detected in late October 2025.
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The Flock license-plate reader system collected and provided vehicle location data to the MPD for use in an internal affairs misconduct investigation, potentially affecting police officers.
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Bloomberg has reported that Adobe's Firefly image generator was trained using thousands of images from competitor Midjourney. Adobe says these made up about 5% of the training data and were part of the Adobe Stock library. The company has marketed Firefly as ethically trained and offered enterprise customers indemnity against copyright claims. Adobe responded that all Adobe Stock images undergo moderation, but the report has raised questions about Firefly's copyright safety.
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Whiteside County deputy under investigation for possible Flock camera misuse WQAD
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued guidance confirming that sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state or federal agencies violates state law SB 34. The decision follows years of advocacy by EFF and the ACLU, who demonstrated through public records that many California law enforcement agencies were sharing data with hundreds of external agencies, including ICE and CBP. The guidance mandates that all California agencies review their data sharing and cut off access to out-of-state and federal entities.
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A former Brunswick County deputy is charged with misusing the Flock license-plate reader system to look up several people's license-plate information without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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Police wrongfully accused a woman of theft based on Flock camera surveillance of her vehicle.
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The system captured images of vehicles and license plates, and the county failed to release them to a public records requester.
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A Cheektowaga police officer and dispatchers were suspended over the alleged misuse of Flock license-plate cameras to track the location of a fellow employee.
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An Albany County Sheriff's Office investigator is accused of using Flock license-plate cameras to track the vehicles of five people, including the investigator's ex-girlfriend, without a lawful purpose.
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A court filing alleges ICE agents stored photos and license plates of protest observers in a Palantir-built database, labeled some of them as threats, and ran facial recognition searches on them.
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A Joliet police lieutenant is charged with felony computer tampering, accused of using the Flock license-plate reader system to flag a female officer's vehicle as wanted, stolen or driven recklessly, which could have led to police stops.
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A Florida police officer was placed on leave after TCPalm questioned the officer's searches of Flock license-plate data on people's movements.
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The system provided 30 days of location data on the driver's vehicle, which led to a traffic stop and search.
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The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.
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Former officer used Flock cameras to surveil and stalk his ex-girlfriend, her family members, and other romantic interests.
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The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.
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The system detected and recorded images of vehicles and people, affecting individuals in public spaces.
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The system captured license plate data and vehicle locations of individuals passing the cameras.
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The Flock camera system collected and stored license plate data, and a former deputy allegedly accessed it without authorization.
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